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wild fig

noun

1. a West Indies clusia having fig-shaped fruit

• Syn: ↑Clusia flava

• Hypernyms: ↑tree

• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Clusia

2. a strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas

• Syn: ↑golden fig, ↑Florida strangler fig, ↑strangler fig, ↑Ficus aurea

• Hypernyms: ↑fig tree

• Member Holonyms: ↑Ficus, ↑genus Ficus

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noun

1. : caprifig

2. : any of several wild plants of the genus Ficus native to Florida (as F. aurea)

3. : a West Indies tree (Clusia flava) or its fig-shaped fruit

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the caprifig.

[1700-10]

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wild fig,

= caprifig. (Cf. ↑caprifig)

Useful english dictionary. 2012.